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MONARDES, NICOLÁS. ca. 1493-1588. Dos libros, el uno que trata de todas las cosas que traen de nuestras de nuestras Indias Occidentales, que sirven al uso de la Medicina, y erl otro que trata de la Piedra Bezaar, y de la Yerva Escuerçonera. Seville: Hernando Diaz, 1569.
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MONARDES, NICOLÁS. ca. 1493-1588.
Dos libros, el uno que trata de todas las cosas que traen de nuestras de nuestras Indias Occidentales, que sirven al uso de la Medicina, y erl otro que trata de la Piedra Bezaar, y de la Yerva Escuerçonera. Seville: Hernando Diaz, 1569.
8vo (167 x 108). [140]ff, plus "Tassa" leaf inserted between A2 and A3. Title with woodcut portrait of Mondardes, woodcut initials, head-, and tail-pieces. Contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript. Spine reinforced, a few small holes and chips, title, "Tassa" leaf and lower corner of leaf L2 repaired, all with some loss, a few minor repaired tears in some other leaves.
Second edition of Monardes's treatise on the medical plants of the New World, first published in 1565. "A reissue of the first edition of 1565. Both editions are rare" (Hunt, 106). Monardes never traveled to America from his native Spain, but was able to study a large number of New World plants due to Seville's control over the navigation and commerce operating between Spain and the Americas. He maintained a botanical garden in which he grew both native and exotic plants, and made scientific studies of the pharmacological properties of such New World species as tobacco, coca, sunflower, sarsaparilla, ipecacuanha, cinchona and sassafras. Monardes's Dos libros was "the first full treatise on these drugs, and for many years the most important study of the medicinal plants of Central America" (Mann Modern Drug Use p 202). It was through Monardes's writings that the American materia medica began to be known, and his books were widely read and translated. The English version, translated by John Frampton, was published in 1569-71 under the title Joyfull Newes out of the Newe Founde World. Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt I, 106; Morton History of Botanical Science p 120.
8vo (167 x 108). [140]ff, plus "Tassa" leaf inserted between A2 and A3. Title with woodcut portrait of Mondardes, woodcut initials, head-, and tail-pieces. Contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript. Spine reinforced, a few small holes and chips, title, "Tassa" leaf and lower corner of leaf L2 repaired, all with some loss, a few minor repaired tears in some other leaves.
Second edition of Monardes's treatise on the medical plants of the New World, first published in 1565. "A reissue of the first edition of 1565. Both editions are rare" (Hunt, 106). Monardes never traveled to America from his native Spain, but was able to study a large number of New World plants due to Seville's control over the navigation and commerce operating between Spain and the Americas. He maintained a botanical garden in which he grew both native and exotic plants, and made scientific studies of the pharmacological properties of such New World species as tobacco, coca, sunflower, sarsaparilla, ipecacuanha, cinchona and sassafras. Monardes's Dos libros was "the first full treatise on these drugs, and for many years the most important study of the medicinal plants of Central America" (Mann Modern Drug Use p 202). It was through Monardes's writings that the American materia medica began to be known, and his books were widely read and translated. The English version, translated by John Frampton, was published in 1569-71 under the title Joyfull Newes out of the Newe Founde World. Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt I, 106; Morton History of Botanical Science p 120.